A man who stalked a high profile Australian rules footballer and organized a gay orgy at the straight player’s family home has been jailed for one year.

Scott Thomas from Newcastle told Alex Rance, of the Richmond Tigers Football Club a gay orgy had been arranged at Rance’s family home, after their friendship turned sour.

The first non-medical journal examining academic research into transgender issues is hoping to launch in April 2014, if it can secure funding.

Transgender Studies Quarterly pledges to 'change the way the world thinks about transgender issues'.

The interdisciplinary journal, edited by University of Arizona professor Susan Stryker and City University of New York's Paisley Currah, has already secured publishing with Duke University Press, a prestigious academic publishers.

A transgender woman has filed a human rights complaint against a Canadian bridal shop after the owner stopped her from trying on wedding dresses.

Rohit Singh, from Saskatoon in southern Canada, says she asked to try on a dress in Jenny’s Bridal Boutique and was refused.

The murder of a soldier in south-east London is being blamed on the UK’s acceptance of gay people.

The Westboro Baptist Church, an extremist US Christian organization, posted a message on Twitter saying ‘Fags Doom Nations’ yesterday (22 May).

They created a poster with images of the alleged killers, who are said to have hacked a victim to death while shouting ‘Allah Akbah’ (God is Great).

On the poster, they included phrases like ‘God Hates The UK’, ‘God Curses The Troops’ and ‘God Is Your Terrorist’.

Hong-Kong-based corporate social responsibility (CSR) advisors Community Business are running a conference tomorrow to help corporations with offices in Asia to engage straight allies to make better working environments for LGBT employees.

Gay rights advocates in India and around the world are mourning the death of 'committed, passionate, inspiring, nurturing, visionary' activist Shivananda Khan, who passed away on Monday (20 May).

'[Khan] forged a pioneering path across the decades in helping achieve rights and equality for LGBT individuals and communities in diverse geographies and sociocultural environments from Europe to Asia and the Pacific,' said a statement from the organization he helped found, Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM).

A man is facing prison after threatening to bomb a Puerto Rico gay pride march on Twitter.

Joseph Morales Serrano was taken into custody at his home in San Juan on charge of cyber-bullying a gay activist on the social networking site.

As reported by the Associated Press, a spokesman for the FBI said Morales allegedly posted the threatening message on 6 May and was expected to appear before a federal judge yesterday (20 May).

On 1 May Jason Collins, the 7’0” center for the Washington Wizards, and a former Boston Celtics, came out. His statement ‘I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay’ made the cover story for Sports Illustrated.

On 2 May, three Morehouse College basketball athletes were accused of raping an 18-year-old Spelman College student. The story didn’t hit the airwaves in the same way as the Collins story.

Many in the African American community were silent on both incidents because they view both as poxes on the community.

Church of England bosses have forced their own leader – Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby – to pull support for straight civil partnerships.

It is part of their official response to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales which the government is currently pushing through the UK parliament and which will be debated again today.

The Church of England is the state religion of Britain and its bishops will have a vote on the legislation when it reaches the House of Lords.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said ending homophobia is ‘critical’ to the UN’s work and called for an end to anti-gay laws and better education.

His comments were delivered today (17 May) at an event in The Hague, The Netherlands, to mark International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).

The speech was delivered on his behalf by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, in the presence of the new Queen of the Netherlands, Máxima.

With a single lesbian kiss, Finland has made history by fighting for equal marriage at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden.

Krista Siegfrids, who sang ‘Marry Me’, ended her semi-final performance by kissing one of her female dancers.

It is the first time there has ever been a gay kiss on a Eurovision stage in its 59-year history.

Speaking to Gay Star News in Malmo, she told critics her kiss was about spreading love and not politics. Political gestures or lyrics are strictly forbidden under Eurovision rules.